Patents by Inventor Shiro Kikuchi

Shiro Kikuchi has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7677353
    Abstract: In a noise suppression structure of the present invention, a sound absorption sheet is pinched between a flange of a speaker grille and an interior trim. An opening of a space formed by the flange of the speaker grille and a sound guiding tube is covered with the sound absorption sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Nissen Chemitec Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Shinohara, Shiro Kikuchi, Yutaro Kan, Damion Edward Manns
  • Publication number: 20090050402
    Abstract: In a noise suppression structure of the present invention, a sound absorption sheet is pinched between a flange of a speaker grille and an interior trim. An opening of a space formed by the flange of the speaker grille and a sound guiding tube is covered with the sound absorption sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2008
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: NISSEN CHEMITEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Shinohara, Shiro Kikuchi, Yutaro Kan, Damion Edward Manns
  • Publication number: 20070117582
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a radio communication system comprising base stations and mobile stations and a method for controlling transmission power in the system where the base station is able to perform multi-point transmission for transmitting the same signal to a plurality of the mobile stations. In the present invention, the mobile station targeted for the multi-point transmission provides the base station of an increase request or a decrease request of the transmission power by respectively transmitting or not transmitting a predetermined signal to the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2007
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc
    Inventors: Shinzo Ohkubo, Hitoshi Yoshino, Shiro Kikuchi, Toru Otsu
  • Patent number: 7203508
    Abstract: A mobile station is configured to measure receiving qualities of respective signals from a first antenna and a second antenna of a base station (S3, S5), store the results of the measurement, and request the base station to retransmit a signal from an antenna with a higher receiving quality, based on the stored measurement results, when an error is detected in received data thereafter (S10, S11, S12). The base station retransmits the data, using the antenna with the higher receiving quality (i.e., a base station antenna to yield the higher receiving quality at the mobile station) (S15). In another aspect, the mobile station measures a receiving quality of a signal and notifies the base station of the receiving quality. The base station selects a radio channel adapted to a receiving quality on the basis of the measurement result and transmits a signal, using the radio channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Shinzo Ohkubo, Hitoshi Yoshino, Shiro Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 7190930
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a radio communication system comprising base stations and mobile stations and a method for controlling transmission power in the system where the base station is able to perform multi-point transmission for transmitting the same signal to a plurality of the mobile stations. In the present invention, the mobile station targeted for the multi-point transmission provides the base station of an increase request or a decrease request of the transmission power by respectively transmitting or not transmitting a predetermined signal to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2007
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Shinzo Ohkubo, Hitoshi Yoshino, Shiro Kikuchi, Toru Otsu
  • Publication number: 20060084475
    Abstract: A mobile station is configured to measure receiving qualities of respective signals from a first antenna and a second antenna of a base station (S3, S5), store the results of the measurement, and request the base station to retransmit a signal from an antenna with a higher receiving quality, based on the stored measurement results, when an error is detected in received data thereafter (S10, S11, S12). The base station retransmits the data, using the antenna with the higher receiving quality (i.e., a base station antenna to yield the higher receiving quality at the mobile station) (S15). In another aspect, the mobile station measures a receiving quality of a signal and notifies the base station of the receiving quality. The base station selects a radio channel adapted to a receiving quality on the basis of the measurement result and transmits a signal, using the radio channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2005
    Publication date: April 20, 2006
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc
    Inventors: Shinzo Ohkubo, Hitoshi Yoshino, Shiro Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20040009784
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a radio communication system comprising base stations and mobile stations and a method for controlling transmission power in the system where the base station is able to perform multi-point transmission for transmitting the same signal to a plurality of the mobile stations. In the present invention, the mobile station targeted for the multi-point transmission provides the base station of an increase request or a decrease request of the transmission power by respectively transmitting or not transmitting a predetermined signal to the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventors: Shinzo Ohkubo, Hitoshi Yoshino, Shiro Kikuchi, Toru Otsu
  • Publication number: 20030003937
    Abstract: A mobile station is configured to measure receiving qualities of respective signals from a first antenna and a second antenna of a base station (S3, S5), store the results of the measurement, and request the base station to retransmit a signal from an antenna with a higher receiving quality, based on the stored measurement results, when an error is detected in received data thereafter (S10, S11, S12). The base station retransmits the data, using the antenna with the higher receiving quality (i.e., a base station antenna to yield the higher receiving quality at the mobile station) (S15). In another aspect, the mobile station measures a receiving quality of a signal and notifies the base station of the receiving quality. The base station selects a radio channel adapted to a receiving quality on the basis of the measurement result and transmits a signal, using the radio channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2002
    Publication date: January 2, 2003
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Shinzo Ohkubo, Hitoshi Yoshino, Shiro Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 4788679
    Abstract: A packet switch has pluralities of incoming and outgoing trunks, a data memory accessible from them in common, and FIFO memories each provided in each of input and output circuits. Data from the incoming trunks is written into and read out from the buffer memory for transfer to the outgoing trunks, on a time-shared basis, to perform packet switching between trunks of different data transfer rates. Furthermore, the packet switch has an arbiter for detecting process requests from the input circuits and an arbiter for detecting process requests from the output circuits, so that priority control is effected for servicing the requests. As a result, dynamic allocation of access to the buffer memory to the input and output circuits is permitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1988
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Kataoka, Tatsuro Takahashi, Shiro Kikuchi, Naoaki Yamanaka, Hajime Sakakibara, Miki Hirano
  • Patent number: 4245325
    Abstract: Disclosed is a digital multifrequency signaling receiving system in which a first operation device executes an operation to multiply multifrequency signals composed of N samples as input signals by a window function including coefficients required for fast Fourier transform. An output produced at the first operation device, as a sample signal, is subjected to fast Fourier transformation at a second operation device which includes a subtractor and a logic circuit. In the subtractor, the sample signals are delayed N/2 samples to halve the number of sample signals. The logic circuit executes an operation for the sample signals, taking advantage of the fact that some frequencies of the outputs of the Fourier transform are represented as the conjugate complex of the other outputs of the Fourier transform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1981
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation
    Inventors: Shiro Kikuchi, Hitoshi Imagawa, Yasumasa Iwase